So we use silver
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explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoInfinite gold would be useful for electronics, but it would destroy gold’s utility as a long-term store of value. So the wealth for shareholders would be finite, taken from today’s gold holders.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m no physicist, but it seems like once transmutation is a thing, it won’t stop here.
It would be like a quantum computer breaking Bitcoin and so we fall back on Ethereum.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
JATtho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t know, if you gather one proton’s and two neutrons worth of energy, localized entirely within the supposed space of an atom, you could generate mass from energy. However, what that energy converts into, is entirely random, so I would guess most of the time you just get realllly high energy photons out of it.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Mercury isn’t infinite, it just isn’t as broadly useful and valued as gold.
ulterno@programming.dev 2 months ago
Guess we know what price will go up as Gold drops